Whilst I've lived my whole life here in the uk, I have family in NZ and have visited many times. It's my plan to come and live there amongst you at the earliest opportunity ( assuming your government will have me! ), and I hope you'll accept me as an honourary Kiwi.

In the meantime, thanks for having me on your forum. I look forward to sharing and hopefully contributing to your community. In the meantime, I'd like to let you know about what we're doing at the Global drum Network:

Global Drum Network is a vibrant monthly Podcast, made by drummers for drummers, bringing together and uniting the worldwide community of drummers and percussionists wherever and whoever they are.

Our aim is to inspire our listeners by bringing them the very best in news, features, interviews, insights, advice, help and, uniquely, product demonstrations which can be heard. We record these in our own professional studios to enable independent, objective comparison between new products and our benchmark instruments. We believe this is a truly groundbreaking development, for the first time enabling listeners to hear the qualities of a new instrument for themselves and make an informed buying choice in a way which the written word alone cannot.

In addition to this we will be encouraging two-way communication with our listeners and enabling worldwide networking as we bring drummers and percussionists together to collaborate in discussions, projects and live events.

It's an established fact that the drum is officially the coolest instrument on the planet. We're extremely excited at the massive potential of the Global Drum Network, and welcome your input and participation as you join us on our journey. Whoever you are, wherever you are, come and help us beat out the Rhythm of Life with the Global Drum Network!